On Wednesday 14 October 2015 22:37:14 martin schitter wrote:
> On Thu, 28 May 2015 17:37:09 +0200 Adrien Grellier <perso@adrieng.fr> >
krita can not be used/installed anymore on typical debian testing
> machines because of unresolved dependency problems. no necessary update
> happened for quite a while! :(
I understand your frustration but situation is more complex than it seems.
We've been working on Calligra and made some progress despite limited time on
our hands. It is a lot of work because (as you may know) Calligra is a
sophisticated package with over 20_000 files and upstream changes
installation layout a lot.
However the biggest problem is that latest released version of Calligra still
depends on QT4 while some dependencies, notably "marble" and "libkactivities"
were updated to QT5. Most of QT5 dependendencies for Calligra are already
available in "unstable", thanks to Maximiliano Curia, but Calligra itself is
not yet ready for QT5.
I've started working on draft packaging of Calligra "master" for QT5 but
there are so many change that it is going to take a while... I'll probably
push my early draft to "experimental" branch of the repository later this
week.
> it would be really nice, if this issue could be solved sooner or later...
Given the complexity it will probably be "later" rather than "sooner".
Mostly we depend on upstream developers so there is little we (maintainers)
can do.
Perhaps we could maintain Calligra 2.9.8 in "jessie-backports" if we get
approval for it...
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Cheers,
Dmitry Smirnov
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